My husband (casual diver, OWD, with some 25-30 dives) and me (75 dives, just did my stress and rescue course in a lake in Germany) are looking for our next destination. We would love to go back to Indonesia next July/August for 2ish weeks but cannot decide where.
We did Raja Ampat (land based) last year. My dream trip for 10 years and it was amazing. And we've also been to Bali as well as Yogyakarta.
Ideally, we are looking for a location, where we can do some exploring (perhaps even get a scooter or a driver) of land and culture and the finish off with excellent scuba diving.
Right now, I'm looking into
I know we don't have a huge number of dives under our belt yet. We have gained a lot of skills last year in Raja though and we loved diving land based and being able to choose what dives we wanted to join. I'm all for challenging myself, my husband less so in that regard. I don't want to overwhelm either of us, though. We like drift diving as long as it's not a lot of finning against the current.
Am I missing anything? Thankful for any hints.
We did Raja Ampat (land based) last year. My dream trip for 10 years and it was amazing. And we've also been to Bali as well as Yogyakarta.
Ideally, we are looking for a location, where we can do some exploring (perhaps even get a scooter or a driver) of land and culture and the finish off with excellent scuba diving.
Right now, I'm looking into
- Komodo
I have heard a lot of great things about the diving but unsure whether conditions might be too challenging especially for my husband. While he did really well in Raja, it was probably not as enjoyable for him at times as it was for me.
Is land based diving possible? And has anyone done the Maumere - Labuan Bajo trip? - Sulawesi
Bangka? Or Bunaken? Which is better to have a chill-sunbathe-read-realx time after dives? We're not into muck diving and prefer nice coral, lots of fish and if possible some bigger stuff.
Would love to combine this with Tana Toraja so we would probably have to split this trip in two parts. - Alor
This does not really have any land based exploration possibilities, as far as I can see? On videos it always looked nice and calm but I've read that there are tricky currents? - Triton Bay
I would love to explore Papua more but that's probably not really feasible unless we would really rough it. So we would probably combine Triton Bay with a city where we would have a layover, say Singapore maybe. I'm not sure if Triton Bay is maybe too similar to Raja Ampat and if we should explore something different first. It's also closed in the summer so would need more planning and getting the grandparents to take our kids during the autumn school holidays.
I know we don't have a huge number of dives under our belt yet. We have gained a lot of skills last year in Raja though and we loved diving land based and being able to choose what dives we wanted to join. I'm all for challenging myself, my husband less so in that regard. I don't want to overwhelm either of us, though. We like drift diving as long as it's not a lot of finning against the current.
Am I missing anything? Thankful for any hints.